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Norman Mailer’s Eckermann

Lennon knew Mailer for decades, interviewed him relentlessly, appeared in Mailer productions, edited and archived him, wrote his biography, and is probably as close to a modern Eckermann as we can get.

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Norman Mailer at the New York Public Library on June 27, 2007. AP/Diane Bondareff
CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

‘Conversations with Goethe In the Last Years of his Life’
By Johann Peter Eckermann
Translated by Allan Blunden with an Introduction and Notes by Ritchie Robertson
Penguin Books, 752 pages

‘Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature’
By J. Michael Lennon
Etruscan Press, 312 pages

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington, Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Criterion, and other publications.

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